On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > Interesting article on Steve Jobs dietary quirks (not too unlike some > quirks people have here) and comments by nutritional experts: > http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/02/8598251-the-strange-eating-habits-of-steve-jobs
Yeah, Jobs (whose strange health habits were fairly well known) reminds me a lot of TM Org and other New Ages faddists: weird diets, odd supplementation regimes, unusual approaches to disease and avoidance of modern mainstream healthcare. Often these are taken to obsessive and excessive levels: worrying about the latest-greatest supplements or dosing up on Indian or Chinese herbs to the point of heavy-metal overload. Jobs clearly signed his own death certificate with the strange idea that he could force a rare form of pancreatic CA into remission through diet. Occasionally you'll see someone who gets lucky with such an approach, but almost invariably these types just suddenly disappear. Gone. The only good news in this case is now I may eventually get Flash on my iPad…but otherwise what a waste of a life, all based on holding strange untenable beliefs.
